On August 26, the smoke of the East Asia Cup just cleared, the Chinese women's football team set foot on the land of the United States, and launched a unique training tour. As the training is coming to an end, China Sports Daily excitedly depicted in its report the magnificent picture of women's soccer girls sweating and meeting challenges in the United States of America.
In this training across the oceans, the women's soccer girls went through 9 games, with a record of 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, and it is worth mentioning that 4 of the games were against boys' soccer teams aged 15 to 17 years old. In the face of such opponents, head coach Shui Qingxia obviously hopes to improve the team's technical and tactical use in confrontation through the way of "war instead of training". She believes that, compared with the domestic team, the U.S. team in the confrontation and physical collision on the more elaborate, faster transition between offense and defense, individual ability is stronger. All this is for the arrival of the World Cup next year, in order to allow the players to adapt to high-intensity physical confrontation as early as possible, to improve individual ability.
Shui Qingxia expressed her satisfaction with the team's overall performance, believing that the players were in better shape game by game, especially in certain matches where they showed their strengths in passing and receiving and basic coordination. She said, "Although the team is not fully staffed, we still achieved 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss against the men's soccer team. There was a gap between us and our opponents in terms of body and strength, but the women's soccer girls still showed tenacity."
The U.S. trip, the coaching staff gave young players full of opportunities to play, hoping that through the game to let them get exercise and growth, better integration into the team. Water Qingxia talked about: "Wan Jiayao, Wang Linlin, He Zhaofen, Yan Qi, Jin Kun and other young players just entered the team, not much experience in the official game, this time came to the United States, is the hope that they quickly adapt to play with foreign strong teams, familiar with and understand the national team's technical and tactical play. In the end, they all performed very well and improved every day."
At the same time, some veteran players also got back the feeling of playing for the national team during the training. Wu Haiyan was unable to play in the East Asia Cup, but during the training in the United States, she was given ample opportunities to play, not only in the center back and side back position, but also enrich the team's tactical options.
It is reported that the Chinese women's football team will depart for home on August 31, local time. after the end of the Women's Super League in November, the team will once again gather, from the actual battle to carry out a more detailed, more targeted training to further enhance the team's physical reserves and the overall offensive and defensive conversion ability.
